Word: staunched
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...professor was also a staunch defender of academic freedom. As chair of Harvard's Physics Department in the 1950s, Bainbridge opposed the activities of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee...
Perryman of S.M.U. and others counter that in economics as well as military affairs, governments have a strong tendency to fight the last war. Even some staunch advocates of faster growth, however, are uneasy. Very few would contend that there is no limit to noninflationary growth--and if the old 2%-to-2.5% standard is obsolete, where should a new line be drawn? "This is new territory for us," says Annable, the Chicago bank economist. Given the potential payoff, letting growth accelerate seems a gamble at favorable odds, and one well worth taking. But it remains, and irretrievably, a gamble...
ANKARA, Turkey: The first Islamic party to form a government in modern Turkey narrowly won a vote of confidence Monday under a leader who had promised to yank the staunch U.S. ally out of NATO and evict thousands of strategic U.S. troops from the country. But since his election as prime minister last month, Necmettin Erbakan has backed away from his opposition to the West and said that attaining full membership in the European Union would be one of his party's "ultimate goals." TIME's James Wilde reports from the Turkish capital: "Erbakan has made a 180-degree turn...
...last week by Gary Aldrich, a former FBI agent who spent five years assigned to the White House. He describes Livingstone as someone who seemed to be executing orders from higher-ups--his bosses during the Administration's first year were Kennedy and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, both staunch Hillary Clinton allies--in a White House that repeatedly violated the rules surrounding background investigations of White House employees. In an account that appeared on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, Aldrich charged that staff members considered trustworthy by the Clintons could avoid background checks while permanent White...
...Buell, a staunch advocate of a greater ethnic studies presence in the curriculum, chaired a Faculty committee on ethnic studies that recommended to the Faculty Council in 1993 that Harvard establish a standing committee in ethnic studies and hire more faculty specialists in the field...